Not that you have any idea what I, or anyone else pays for their gear, but I got mine as a promo when I was a unit tester and it cost me ZERO (which is not the point) and I have no reason to be bias. Just because items have the same core and may be made under the roof of one factory, does NOT mean that they are the same units. This is proof you no absolutely NOTHING about outsourced manufacturing processes. Each company has specific proprietary chips that allow them to add their additional specs, software and coding, their own OTA tuner thresholds and sensitivity settings, EPG, or remote tweaks. Some have more on-board memory. I could very easily be as childish as you and go with "can't you simply admit YOU are wrong? You bought the cheapest unit that you could afford and it is YOU that is sore you didn't know any better." This isn't a pissing contest. I don't care one bit about what you think you know and don’t appreciate the bad-mouthing about my information. Post your spec and data sheets! I am passing along info to another user. If you don't like it, move along. And unless you care to post a meaningful comment, you aren’t doing anything other than trolling to get a word fight going. Since you seem to have a reason to think my info makes you look bad, I will stop my posting and allow you to continue to shell out your one-sided info based on the wal-mart poketbook method of advise. You guys enjoy his advise. See Ya!